I tried 190 Expanded with all the recommended mods but missed this one for the first play-through. So after trying both with and without, I have to say I'm very impressed with this mod. Cavalry was so unusably weak in 190+ without it and this is the first mod I've ever seen make the generals still feel like exciting "Dynasty Warrior"-esque heroes while not feeling like wrecking balls that can cycle route half the enemy line before they make contact with yours. Very well done

To anyone worried about the general debuffs. I tested with my favorite faction - Dong Zhuo. At extreme unit count, I usually got 1100-1200 kills with Lu Bu back in the day and that stayed with 190+. With this, that only dropped to 850-900 on my first attempt (though the speed debuffs might hit other generals harder and change this a bit I suppose)

Im really liking the mod right now, balancing seems very good. Just wanna ask if there is another version of this mod with less nerfed generals, because i really liked having powerful generals that could turn a lost battle around sometimes. Also sometimes it's necessary to survive with a stack of only generals when ai spams stacks

ah that sounds good look forward to the updates! I played around with sieges a little in my current play-through by removing siege weapons and allowing 4 siege towers and 1 battering ram to be built in one turn of siege, its played out pretty well for the most part but I find that nightbattles always trivialise being sieged if AI can't attack immediately as garrison joins in

As a sidenote, I took a bit of a delay updating this with new skills added by ironic as I've been busy with real life stuff that took most of my brain power. I'll try to get back on it as soon as possible, including some tweaks (early game cavalry power) as well as an experimental test with siege battles. (Allowing an attack even without a siege weapon)

yes, most of the damaging skills are toned down. Supportive skills (passives/buffs) are usually as strong tho (altho often more specialized perhaps ?)

are some skills like poison volley toned down?

ah sorry I meant in romance mode

(speed)

Not too much really, the initial size of the bodyguard is lower and the horses have been made consistent with the regular unit horses.

what were the changes you made to generals to make them a bit weaker?

balanced for records ?? in 190 ?

Yes because Ironic hates me and my love for properly arranged units in color groups.
Don't get me started on the Xianbei Gray Cavalry

Is it normal that the Wuhuan lancers don't ride a top horses? when i played as Yofuluo his Wuhuan lancers were walking on foot eventhough their unit type was the red one (which means they're a shok cavalry unit)

today.

update when?